1789 examples of tamest in sentences

The musical and merry "chickadee-dee-dee" of the tamest of the birds of winter and the somewhat sadder note of the wood pewee mingled with the occasional caw of a crow, the shrill cry of a jay, or the tapping of woodpeckers upon the boles of dead trees.

But even in the midst of such patriotic endeavours, which from a police point of view were entirely in order, the poet interrupts himself; -Sed sumne ego stultus, qui rem curo publicam Ubi sunt magistratus, quos curare oporteat?- and taken as a whole, we can hardly imagine a comedy politically more tame than was that of Rome in the sixth century.(22)

At Niagara we have gloried in the belief that all the cataracts of other lands were tame; but we changed our mind when we stood on the brink of Great Shoshone Falls.

He never did anything to tame them except to treat them kindly.

When Nature wants to name a man And fame a man And tame a man; When Nature wants to shame a man To do his heavenly best.... When she tries the highest test That her reckoning may bring When she wants a god or king!

How thou tamest hither I know not; but I perceive by thy speech that thou art Florentine.

" "Yesit might be amusing to fish him out; but the most picturesque types in Wall Street are generally the tamest in a drawing-room."

Had he carried it into a pasture full of horses, it would have prevented him from catching the tamest of them.

With the finest themes in the world for that sort of writing, they are the dullest, tamest, and most tedious things ever poor critic was condemned, or other people vainly invited, to read.

Of course she had only to mention the fact to me to make it perfectly plain, and henceforth he and his doings, his belongings and himself, all of them of the tamest sort at best, were a sealed book to me.

Even the tamest are under no subjection, for they act merely to please themselves.

But whatever our people may have been like, our politicians were on the very tamest level of timidity and the fear of force to which they have ever sunk.

Habitual selection of the tamest to breed from.

Mr. Campbell of Islay informed me that the tamest of certain herds of them look as if they were wild; they have to be caught with a lasso to be milked.

The tamest cattlethose that seldom ran away, that kept the flock together and led them homewardswould be preserved alive longer than any of the others.

They are obliged to confine themselves to what is presented to their view in their own immediate neighborhood; but there is enough even in the tamest prospect, to excite the wonder and admiration of the beholder, and to inspire them with emotions of love and gratitude towards the great Creator.

Tennyson's 'ape and tiger' die very hard in the tamest of us.

A song that makes a great hit in one will get just the tamest sort of a hand in another.

However, I must needs say this accomplished Mistress of mine has distinguished me above the rest, and has been known to declare Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY was the Tamest and most Human of all the Brutes in the Country.

Ha, ha, ha, A miserable man thou shall be, This is the tamest Trout I ever tickl'd.

"I don't know," said the other, frankly; "the tamest thing you can think of.

Everything, in fact, prepares you for one of the tamest of all tame novels, when suddenly the "Thunderbolt" of the title remembers its attributes and bursts from a clear sky.

Thou tamest toward me through the whispering forest, enveloped in a soft haze, and when thou wert quite near me my tired senses could not endure it, so strong was the fragrance of the wild thyme.

Any landscape in New England, even the tamest, has a more striking outline, and besides would have its blue eyes open in those lakelets that we encounter almost from mile to mile at home, but of which the Old Country is utterly destitute; or it would smile in our faces through the medium of those way-side brooks that vanish under a low stone arch on one side of the road, and sparkle out again on the other.

But I was going upon the tamest possible excursion; for the first time in my life I was submitting to the direction of another, albeit one who lay in the grave.

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